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“Immediate gratification never creates lasting happiness.” - Douglas Vermeeren
Today’s featured bestselling author is known as the modern-day Napoleon Hill and the producer and director of three out of the top ten personal development movies ever made, The Opus, The Gratitude Experiment, and The Treasure Map, Douglas Vermeeren. Douglas and I talk about some life-changing lessons he learned from interviewing 400 of the world’s top achievers and his newest movie in collaboration with Bob Proctor, Denis Waitley, John Demartini, Joe Vitale, John Assaraf, Marie Diamond, Travis Fox and Dr. Karen Perkins.
Key Things You’ll Learn:
How to manage 2 types of toxic people.
Some of the lessons learned from interviewing over 400 successful people
How to come from a true place of authenticity.
The true meaning of what it is to be an influencer.
Advice for podcasters that do interview based-shows.
What the highest level skill that you can learn in life (and it’s not sales)!
Why you should ask more “who” instead of “how” questions?
The Movie “How Thoughts Become Things”: https://www.howthoughtsbecomethings.com/
Doug’s Site: http://www.douglasvermeeren.com/
Doug’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Vermeeren/e/B00JBF2QGQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Doug’s YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3MhYaQHMV99Ybs5gb2wKQ
The opening track is titled "New Perspective" by the magnanimous chill-hop master, Marcus D (@marcusd). Be sure to visit his site and support his craft. http://marcusd.net/album/secret-bosses-unreleased-retrod-beats
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